A Veil of Truth and Trickery (The Veiled Realm, #1)

by Analeigh Ford

“Tell me this isn’t your first time. I wouldn’t want to hurt you.” “It’s not,” I said, trying to steady my trembling lips. “There was another.” “Good,” he said. “Now I’m going to make you forget him.”

I’d never seen a human die before, but somehow, I didn’t think it would amount to this. This wasn’t the cutting short of a life. This was the ending of an eternity. It was more like watching a star die, the light in his eyes burning so fiercely for that final moment as the huge piercing end of the fiend’s tail sliced straight through his body as if it were nothing more than smoke

“Do you always look at your dinner like you want to fuck it, or is that something you’ve specially reserved for me?”